Category: Chinese

The start of a journey is very important. It can decide what route we choose to take, whether we give up, as well as what we think about the whole...

On Hacking Chinese, I mostly write about how to learn. This is not only because I think that’s where my strength and interest lie, but also because...

One of the most common questions I receive is what my flashcard deck looks like and how I think one should organise a deck of flashcards for optimum...

I have taught a brief introduction course in Chinese at my university now for five years running and every time, I try to give the students as much...

There are many people who advocate a very hands-on approach to language learning, urging us to simply use the language as much as possible and let...

When reading a text in Chinese with Pinyin shown on top of characters, what do you look at? Most students look at the familiar letters, and you need...

Language learning can be divided into two major “directions”: bottom-up and top-down. Bottom-up learning means that you focus on the parts, then...

Digital tools have had an enormous impact on Chinese language learning. If we take something as simple as looking up an unfamiliar character in a...

How much time are you investing into learning Chinese? Or is it maybe better to talk about it using a unit other than time, such as how many books...

In the previous article, we started with the basic question of why logging your Chinese learning is a good idea. We saw that it has a number of...